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In his 1988 book “Cultural Literacy, What Every American Needs To Know” E.D. Hirsch Jr. wrote that: “To be truly literate citizens must be able to grasp the meaning of any piece of writing addressed to the general reader.” He went on to say that all citizens should be able to read: “Newspapers of substance.” To Hirsch Read more

“Practise Teaching, Teaching Practice” is a series of tips and observations about fundamentals for great teaching based on my experience as a teacher for over twenty years and also as a trainer of teachers for much of that time. There is a mathematical theory based on queuing, this is not it. It is, however, something Read more

“Practise Teaching, Teaching Practice:” is a series of tips and observations about fundamentals for great teaching based on my experience as a teacher for over twenty years and also as a trainer of teachers for much of that time.  There was a problem in a music department, I was asked to investigate. I went to observe Read more

Today Tristram Hunt addressed the question: “Who Should Have The Power To Create The School Curriculum?” His answer was, as I remember it,  that it should be teachers working together in schools, clusters and chains. He reiterated his stated policy that all schools, regardless of what type of school they are, will have freedom to innovate Read more

In forty years time weirdly unwizened old women and men will whisper over their alcopops and remember the day when Push Came To Gove and education fell into the ‘quiet years’. They will recall that in the quiet years following Gove’s sudden demise that the Nicky Morgan colouring book never sold well. One will say: “When Morgan’s name was mentioned at Read more

  TES and THE are proud to be media partners for this event and we are very proud that they are too! The conference took place at King’s College, The Strand, London, on October 14th 2014. The point of the event was to look at the current thinking about the liberal arts in universities and in Read more